Articles by Edan Lepucki

February 19, 2010

My Biographer Will Be Pleased: Thoughts on Personal Papers 8

I am so focused on things these days, of discarding them, packing them, transporting them. And my books and these old papers and letters–these say the most about my life than anything, any thing, could.

February 18, 2010

Not Lost, Just Rearranged: A Profile of Michelle Huneven 7

“What’s wrong with you, is wrong with your writing,” Huneven says. “It really behooves you to find out what that is, so that you can disguise that in your writing. Or compensate it, or cover it up. Or cure it, if you can.”

February 8, 2010

Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask 0

At FiveChapters this week, you can read an excerpt of Sam Lipsyte’s forthcoming novel, The Ask.

February 4, 2010

Letters to Jerry 0

Novelist Joanna Smith Rakoff once handled J.D. Salinger’s fan mail.  (via.)

January 14, 2010

The Great Book Purge of 2010 37

For about a year, the books in our apartment threatened to swallow my husband and me. Adding another bookcase, like adding another lane to an already clogged freeway, didn’t help–it only encouraged us to read more.

January 11, 2010

The Women 1

Director Jamieson Fry follows up–and perhaps surpasses–his incredible book trailer for Dan Chaon’s Await Your Reply with this one for The Women by T.C. Boyle